Rick is a smart, driven, and creative Art Director with 15 years of expertise in contributing to the creative process and delivering groundbreaking ideas on projects - focusing on concept art, storyboard, illustration, and comic book work. He creates compelling solutions, appreciates design sense, color theory, typography, and composition. He converts project briefs into intentional creative treatments - utilizing memorable visuals, design principles, and creative approaches for each project.
Discussed storytelling direction, design requirements and provided cleaned-up storyboards with attention to clarity and entertainment value on projects.
Explored interesting and innovative scenes that elevate the look and visual narrative of different projects using the latest VR technology.
Provided status updates on solutions - ensuring that storyboards align with client creative goals and storytelling objectives.
Created the storyboard for Sintonia, a Netflix drama series, its first season airing in 2019.
Worked alongside the producers, the showrunner, and the directors to help convey the scenes.
Worked on 5 scenes throughout that first season developing the visual narrative and solving complex scenes with multiple characters and different environments.
Wardogs is an original content web series in animation with 4+ high-quality spin-offs of Social Comic originals. Worked on the character design for the teaser and series in development. Produced solutions for art direction and storyboards on the project.
Worked on a comic book series - handling all the write-ups, drawings and paintings for the book. Published the book online as part of the Comixology Submission Initiative - delivering seven issues and crowdfunding the successful print-out of the comic book.
Worked on a ZOAN-led project for The National Museum of Finland / Maritime Centre Vellamo's main exhibition. Developed the whole storyboard for the Battle of Svenskund project - a 9-minute short film for the museum.
